Sentences with phrase «more holding teachers accountable»

Accountability is built into that model so no more summative tests, no more homework, no more holding teachers accountable for things over which they have no control.

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«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

Some want the current majority to maintain control and continue pushing for changes such as a longer school day, more charter schools and a teacher contract that holds educators more accountable for performance.

We propose to study more than a decade of data from North Carolina, where teachers and schools are held accountable for the proportion of their students who pass end - of - year exams.

The more serious difficulties arise when value - added assessments are used to hold schools and teachers accountable, with high - stakes personnel decisions to follow.

Eighteen of the 25 institutions that train teachers in Florida have lost state approval of one or more of their education programs under a law that holds them accountable for their students» performance on the state's basic - skills test for teachers.

The Philadelphia school board approved a program last week that will hold teachers more accountable for student performance and give cash awards to successful schools.

When people are given a fuller definition, including the public nature of charters, the freedom charters have to be more innovative while being held accountable for improved student achievement, and the greater partnerships among parents, teachers, and students often found at charters, we see support grow across partisan and ideological lines.

But when policymakers seek to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable for those standards by using the results from aligned assessments, support is far more likely to falter.

I can continue to confer with my students on a regular basis, but they can start to keep each other accountable and have rich and deliberate conversation with each other, which is a more authentic healthy reading habit than being held accountable to a teacher.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trustTeachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trustteachers accountable than trust them!).

By giving teachers the freedom to innovate and try new ways to improve student achievement, public charter schools can be more responsive and create an environment tailored to the needs of individual students, while still being held more accountable for student learning.

Across the country, schools spend some $ 14 billion a year on the extra pay for advanced degrees, according to one study, though the practice is gaining greater scrutiny as policy - makers look to hold teachers more accountable for students» learning.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

We created it after I realized how many school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their schools, holding adults accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.

For years, efforts to improve K - 12 schools have focused on developing more rigorous academic standards, testing students, holding teachers and administrators accountable for students» test results, and creating new charter schools.

In a 173 - page report released as the National Governors» Association opened its annual convention here, the governors said both teachers and school boards should be given more flexibility in improving the schools but also be held accountable for much higher standards than they are now.

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know....).

Her complex feelings reflect the nationwide ambivalence toward the growing movement to hold teachers more accountable for what their students actually learn.

Sanders thought that educators struggling with student achievement in the state should «simply» use more advanced statistics, similar to those used when modeling genetic and reproductive trends among cattle, to measure growth, hold teachers accountable for that growth, and solve the educational measurement woes facing the state of Tennessee at the time.

More specifically, the PED is actively seizing power and authority over local school districts» teacher evaluation systems, and in this case the extent to which sick leave is to be used to hold teachers accountable for their effectiveness.

It is even more so to realize that, after telling the students that they do not have to learn, work, or even show up to school in order to continue passing each grade, the Board will then hold them accountable for passing an impossible test for which the Board of Ed has actively prevented teachers from preparing the students.

Kathleen M. Cashin, the Regent from Brooklyn, voted against the change, saying it would hold teachers accountable for a new standard without providing more training for them to improve.

(Calif.) Nine months after California's dustup with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan over accountability and the Common Core, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — seems to have decided California was right: States need more time to train teachers, prepare assessments and teach students in the new standards before schools can be held accountable.

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

For three years, Kimberly Safran has been on the front lines of the Pittsburgh school district's push to hold teachers more accountable for student achievement.

More than 2,300 teachers who participated in 200 district focus groups overwhelmingly said they wanted more feedback, and they wanted to be held accountable for their performaMore than 2,300 teachers who participated in 200 district focus groups overwhelmingly said they wanted more feedback, and they wanted to be held accountable for their performamore feedback, and they wanted to be held accountable for their performance.

This is pure union obstructionism and especially laughable coming from an organization whose mantra is, «Let's spend bushels more on public education... but don't hold any unionized teachers accountable.»

In the drive to hold teachers more accountable for student learning, states are revolutionizing how they evaluate teachers.

Professor Richard Ingersoll makes the case that, to improve teacher quality, schools need to go beyond holding teachers more accountable — by giving them more control.

Just after New Year's Day, Illinois educators introduced a major reform proposal to hold school administrators, school board members and teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability teachers accountable for their work on behalf of school children statewide.Three unions representing more than 230,000 Illinois education employees, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability Teachers (IFT) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability Teachers Union (CTU) termed their plan Accountability for All.

If those results hold up, Deasy would maintain a fragile majority in support of his policies, which emphasize holding teachers more accountable for student achievement in the nation's second - largest school district.

More importantly, we MUST «address childhood poverty» as this, not testing and holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, is where true reform should be positioned

Haslam said it only makes sense that if «the teachers are being held more accountable and they are producing better results — and that's undeniable in Tennessee — then it is our obligation to also have the fastest increasing teachers» salaries in the country.»

A national push to make public schools more rigorous and hold teachers more accountable has led to a vast expansion of testing in kindergarten.

But the 2nd term governor fails to address the oncoming Common Core Testing debacle, commit to holding charter schools more accountable or announce that he will fix his unfair Teacher Evaluation program by decoupling it from the unless Common Core Test scores.

The Democratic Assembly Speaker, for example, said that «he's always been troubled that teachers are rated on standardized test scores,» more specifically noting: «I don't think any single teacher that I've talked to would shirk away from being held accountable... [b] ut if they're going to be held accountable, they want to be held accountable for things that... reflect their actual work.»

Note, however, that this study took place before even more consequences were attached to students» test scores, given the federal government's more recent fascination with holding teachers accountable for their quantifiable - by - student - test - scores «value - added.»

Their Race to the Top program was, in essence, No Child Left Behind II: It invited states to compete for $ 5 billion in funds by holding teachers accountable for test scores, adopting national standards, opening more charter schools, and closing low - scoring public schools.

Despite the controversy and opposition from teacher unions, value - added measures have become increasingly popular as a way to hold schools and teachers more accountable.

Even more important, teachers and administrators in successful schools serving high - poverty students hold each other accountable through a shared sense of responsibility for the success of their students.

We expect more from teachers and hold them accountable for providing students with the motivation, inspiration and support they need to achieve.

At the same time, Cuomo has been intent on holding teachers more and more accountable for their students» performance on those tests.